Russia's
highest court has dismissed a Kremlin bid to shut down leading human rights
group Memorial. Activists are calling the verdict a rare victory for civil
society and freedom of speech in Russia.
Supreme
Court judge Alla Nazarova rejected a lawsuit Wednesday by Russia's justice
ministry to close down the human rights group Memorial. The organization gained
a reputation by exposing Soviet-era repression.
The
government department argued Memorial's charter did not correlate with the work
it carried out, and it had committed a vast number of breaches, such as giving
misleading information about overseas finance.
Following
the judgment, the ministry released a statement saying Memorial had rectified
all violations and the case would now be closed.
Memorial,
which also works on issues relating to human rights across Russia, including
the troubled Caucaus region, welcomed the court's findings but cautioned Moscow
was still trying to control the work of non-governmental organizations.
"It is
good that common sense won out," senior Memorial member Yan Rachinsky said
in court.
"But
it is difficult to accept it as a full victory for our organization."
Board
member Oleg Orlov said the decision came down to a strong public campaign in
support of Memorial, cautioning "the overall situation with Russian civil
society is awful."
The rights
group established itself during the final years of the Soviet Union, recording
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's purges. They also worked to commemorate victims
of the 1930s mass executions.
Since his
election for a record third term in 2012, President Vladimir Putin has
introduced a raft of measures to make life unbearable for non-governmental
groups.
The lawsuit
came two years after harassment in the form of smear publications and vandalism
to the group's headquarters in Moscow.
Memorial is
currently before the courts fighting a separate legal battle against an
official move to brand the group a "foreign agent." The controversial
new law targets non-governmental groups which receive overseas funding.
jlw/jr (AFP, epd)
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"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)
"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)
“… The Great Shift began in 1987 with the Harmonic Convergence. The first part of that shift ended in 1999. It's important that you understand that this first portion of the shift included the galactic alignment. For the true galactic alignment energy began in the first phase of the shift. As my partner indicated, this astronomical alignment is not coming in 2012. It's already here. This is not esoteric information, but something that your astronomers will verify with their telescopes and computers. The ancients did their best, and a good estimate it was. But the 2012 date for the galactic alignment is incorrect.
There are those of you sitting in the chairs who know what I mean. These past 20 years have been remarkable for you, have they not? Look at what has taken place and the awakening and changes that have occurred... all without any prophesy that foretold of them. Those who walk this stage today were not interested in spiritual things 20 years ago. Oh, they may have been seekers, but they had no core, they had no center, they had no purpose. This includes the one who channels in front of you [Lee Carroll], and the ones that have channelled before me on this stage [Geoff Hoppe-Tobias]. Twenty years ago, they were all separate and unknown to each other, without any spiritual purpose. They had no idea what Kryon was or Tobias was. None at all. Their lives were those of men with careers and of an age where starting another passion wasn't something they would do. But they did, and it coincided with the Great Shift.
Remember, there is no such thing as predestined prophecy. God cannot tell you what's going to happen, for on this planet, humans are in charge. "If that's the case, Kryon, how can you tell us about a plan?" It is because these things I speak of are the potentials in front of us, generated by the consciousness of humanity. Therefore, what I give you is something we read into the consciousness of potentials. They are not predictions, but potential energies of what you are about to accomplish as you act upon the energy of the consciousness you have now. Much has happened in these 20 years, and it's part of the shift. Here was the plan from 1987 to 1999 - we told you the following things would take place:
Remember, as I speak to you now, this is history. But when I gave it to you in 1989, it was your future. The first thing that was at hand was moving the magnetic grid. That's why I came here. The grid group came in 1989 and left in 2002, and the grid was moved for the reasons I've been giving you and itemizing for 20 years. It was to build a matrix for a change in your DNA. This is, indeed, what happened, for the grid's magnetic field moved greatly in that time, and it has intersected with the magnetic field of your DNA elements. This overlap has transmitted information and energy and a new quantumization to your DNA, which has always been quantumly prepared for this.
The second item in this first phase was the voiding of the energy of Armageddon. Now, for those of you who think nothing happened, a great deal happened: This planet moved into another energy at that time. One of the largest political systems on the planet fell over and didn't come back, known as the Soviet Union. Again, we say to you there is no Nostradamus quatrain that predicted this, and that should tell you something. It changed the future greatly, yet no prophet called it. Something was happening that was out of synch with everything you had been told. This one event changed the future of a potential war that would never happen. The Armageddon scenario simply didn't take place. Look back at your prophesy, but clearly it said it would. …”
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